The UK has laid out plans – as part of the Integrated Review – to create a new homeland security headquarters as part of plans to improve the country’s response to major terror threats. Officials have claimed that a successful chemical, biological or nuclear attack is likely to occur in the next ten years, reports Reuters.
The Integrated Review – which outlines the UK’s post-Brexit security and defence policy – proposes the creation of a Counter Terrorism Operations Centre that will bring together police, government officials, spy agencies and elements from the judicial system.
After it was recently revealed that several terror plots had been thwarted since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Review has re-emphasised how the Government are continuing to try and improve the speed of which incidents and emerging threats are reported and dealt with.
It was stated in the review: “Terrorism will remain a major threat over the coming decade, with a more diverse range of material and political causes, new sources of radicalisation and evolving tactics. A “robust, full-spectrum approach in response [has been promised]”.
The review also claimed there was “a realistic possibility that state sponsorship of terrorism and the use of proxies will increase.
“It is likely that a terrorist group will launch a successful CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear) attack by 2030.”
